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Ivory is an off-white color named after, and derived from, the material made from the tusks and teeth of certain animals, such as the elephant and the walrus. It has a very slight tint of yellow. The color is often associated with purity and elegance. In Western culture, it is also associated with weddings and other formal occasions.
The distinction between a heron and an egret is rather vague, and depends more on appearance than biology. The word "egret" comes from the French word aigrette that means both "silver heron" and "brush", referring to the long, filamentous feathers that seem to cascade down an egret's back during the breeding season (also called "egrets").
Ivory is an off-white color that resembles ivory, the material out of which the teeth and tusks of animals (such as the elephant and the walrus) are made. It has a very slight tint of yellow. The first recorded use of ivory as a color name in English was in 1385. [11] A carving in ivory
The avifauna of Ivory Coast include a total of 744 species, of which one has been introduced by humans. 26 species are globally threatened. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the ...
Great egret: Ardea alba Linnaeus, 1758: 60 Yellow-billed egret: Ardea brachyrhyncha Brehm, AE, 1854: 61 Medium egret: Ardea intermedia Wagler, 1829: 62 Plumed egret: Ardea plumifera Gould, 1848: 63 Western cattle egret: Ardea ibis (Linnaeus, 1758) 64 Eastern cattle egret: Ardea coromanda (Boddaert, 1783) 65 Grey heron: Ardea cinerea Linnaeus ...
The western reef heron (Egretta gularis), also called the western reef egret, is a medium-sized heron found in southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. It has a mainly coastal distribution and occurs in several plumage forms: a slaty-grey plumage in which it can only be confused with the rather uncommon dark morph of the Little egret (Egretta garzetta); a white form which can look very ...
The western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) was embedded in the genus Ardea. The eastern cattle egret ( Bubulcus coromandus ) was not sampled. The placement of the forest bittern ( Zonerodius heliosylus ) was ambiguous, but the results suggest that it is probably closely related to members of the genus Ardeola rather than to the subfamily ...
The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret [2] or great white heron, [3] [4] [5] is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Recently, it has also been spreading to more northern areas of Europe.